I would not characterize this as “a major diplomatic breakthrough.”

I would instead call it human trafficking. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

I guess it’s time for America to decide again if it wants its kids to go to college. Do you think that there’s any chance that in the bucking, earth-churning aftermath of the destruction, we will get universal and affordable higher ed?

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

So, what do you think is going to happen after the government-led economic crash?

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

BRICS has been pushing to expand in recent years as it grows in clout and has accepted other countries in Africa and the Middle East.

As a parent of three teens, today is a new day. I hope TikTok never comes back. Block the rest of them, too.

To all the yoga instructors out there: I could never do a three legged dog again for the rest of my life and it would be too soon. Please choose another pose.

All alarms should be going off with these new
@ihmeuw.bsky.social data which show a steadily declining life expectancy in the US

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It doesn’t get said enough. Pete Buttigieg is the most formidable DOT Secretary I’ve seen in my lifetime.

As a Jew, an anthropologist, and a foodie, I’m obsessed with the #Jewish practice of #kashrut, and definitions of what is #kosher and what is #treif. In 2025, I’m planning to use this space to think and share about this specific space of culture and food.

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I’m a medical anthropologist at Georgetown University, ghss.georgetown.edu/social-id-lab/, and a specialist in global health and infectious disease outbreaks, humanitarian assistance, and human rights.

I’m also the founder of Communitology. communitology.co/find-a-consu....

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This brilliant article on mpox *perfectly* encapsulates all the challenges and complexities of responding to outbreaks in places like rural DR Congo.

Access, resources, stigma, and so much more.

Gift link below. Wonderful reporting @stephanienolen.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...

Filing this under “about damn time” and “bare minimum”…
#H5N1 #IDSky 🧪

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky

This is... terrible timing. 😳

www.newsbreak.com/share/367752...